6/25/2023 0 Comments I would prefer not to melville![]() The narrator is an elderly Wall Street lawyer who employs two clerks, or ‘scriveners’ – Turkey and Nippers – whose job is to make copies of legal documents, and one office boy, Ginger Nut. My favourite was the first story, Bartleby the Scrivener, which was first published in Putnam’s Magazine in 1853. ![]() ![]() I Would Prefer Not To contains four stories, although the final one takes up more than half the book and is probably better described as a novella. I’ve never read anything by Herman Melville – I know I should have read Moby Dick by now, but it has never sounded appealing to me – so when I spotted this new collection of Melville short stories from Pushkin Press it seemed a good opportunity to experience some of his work without having to commit to a 600+ page novel. ![]()
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